With SAP S/4 HANA, SAP has developed a new product that leverages basic data structures and elements of the SAP Business Suite for maximum compatibility, non-disruptive migration and hybrid scenarios.

However SAP S/4 HANA provides new business functionality on top of these data structures natively built on the SAP HANA platform and designed with the SAP Fiori UX Principles. SAP Business Suite on-premise customers on the latest enhancement package can easily move to this new product by migrating to SAP HANA database and applying the exchange innovation to their current SAP Business Suite environment.